Preface“The olden days of travelling, now to return no more, in which distance could not be vanquished without toil”—those are the days mourned by Ruskin, who...

On a Chinese Screen is a travel bookmade of a series of short sketches Maugham made during a trip along the Yangtze River, and although ostensibly about China the book is equally...

France is a land of many treasures. Human, senic, historic and cultural. Although justly famed for it's wine, gastronomy, and fashions, France's greatest treasures are it's...

"An Inland Voyage” (1878) is one of the most well known R.L.Stevenson's travelogues. In 1878 the outdoor excursions were an unusual pastime so Stevenson seeks to...

An Inland Voyage (1878) is a travelogue by Robert Louis Stevenson about a canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876. It is Stevenson's earliest book and a pioneering...

Smollett describes in great detail the natural phenomena, history, social life, economics, diet and morals of the places he visited. Smollett had a lively and pertinacious...

England has been built up upon the framework of her rivers, and, in that pattern, the principal line has been the line of the Thames. Partly because it was the main highway of...

Welcome to Barcelona, Gaudi's city, and much more.The capital of Catalunha's region (Spain) is a city where you feel good, safe and with a lot to see. It's inevitable...

A brief, witty fun parlor book with stories of old manor houses, theatres, Norman castles, clubs, theatres and cinemas that are known as centres of paranormal, poltergeist, and...

A trailblazer among American women at the turn of the century, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France....